Gojira felt pressure to represent the 'whole metal community' during their fiery performance at the opening ceremony for the 2024 Summer Olympics.
The flames, the double kick drums blast beats, the headless Mario Antoinettes, the opera singer on a giant boat. There was nothing about FrenchIn other words, there was a lot of pressure on the group to deliver, for their country and for their genre. That explains why in the lead-up to Friday night’sthat their bruising version of the song “Ah! Ça Ira” — a tune popular during the French Revolution — had to bring it.
“It was a very bloody era of French history, so it was very metal,” Duplantier said of what he thought was the “smart” idea to ask a heavy metal band play the revolutionary anthem. But more importantly, Duplantier said he and his bandmates were determined to represent “the whole metal community on the world stage.
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